Is Milton responsible for making the Devil a sympathetic character? Joseph Pearce asks and endeavours to answer this controversial question... Sympathy for the Devil? - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
Joseph Pearce recommends twelve works of contemporary fiction published in the twenty-first century... A Dazzling Dozen - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
Celebrating Tolkien on Hobbit Day... Celebrating Hobbit Day - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
Celebrating the great Metaphysical Poet, Richard Crashaw... The Catholic Poet Who Died in Exile - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
We can't understand Shakespeare's plays unless we understand the man who wrote them... Shakespeare's Authorial Authority - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
Celebrating the Saint Robert Southwell whose poetry and holiness inspired the works of Shakespeare... Saint, Martyr and Shakespeare's Muse - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
Great lessons that great poems teach... The Poetic Path to Wisdom - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
The danger of anger... Anger Spells Danger - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
How did Tolkien's Catholic faith inspire his work? Tolkien the Catholic - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
In her autobiography, My Life in Three Acts (1990), Helen Hayes contrasted her acting career with that of her friend, Maurice Evans. “Maurice had an advantage that I lacked,” she explained, “a strong drive to get ahead.” Of herself, she shrugged, “I just floated along, and things somehow fell into my lap.” Unimpressed by Evans’ drive, [...]
